Yunis In A Failing Country

It seems that someone from the presidency follows this blog because as soon as I wondered about Mubarak's health after the delaying the inauguration of Saft El-Labn bridge and the Islamic Museum , we found last Saturday active enough to inaugurate both the bridge and the museum !!

Anyhow during the re-inauguration of the Islamic Museum there was that staged Q&A dialogue between president Mubarak "MHM" and Minister of electricity and energy Hassan Yunis "HY" :

MHM : I want to know why we have blackouts !!?? Especially we have got large production of electricity

HY : From 1 AM to 12 PM we find the pressure normal as people are asleep but then the pressure start from Al Maghreb time to jump in to 3000 Megawatts suddenly !!

MHM: We have got enough productions but the generators can't stand !!??

HY : Yes we got production but the generators can't stand the two hours peak time , we are not against the people to use AC but they have to use wisely , to close it when they leave the room !!

Ok this was for real a pathetic stage Q&A , why I considered staged :

1. Why does the minister of electricity attend a cultural event like the inauguration of the Islamic museum after its restoration !!??
2. Suddenly Mubarak realizes that there are blackouts across the country !! Does not he read at 7AM all the publications in his office !!?
3. We did not have Ramadan through out the summer Dr. Hassan so you would accuse the Maghreb time !!
4. In his justification in front of the president you find the minister blaming the people for using ACs madly for two hours as if he was trying to avoid any blame.

If Mubarak has just realized that there are blackouts considering the fact that he can't suffer any blackout in his presidential palaces , then this is a disaster and I will not be shocked from this because his entourage isolates him like any president or even a king or a pharaoh from the rest of the people ; people are always fine and always wish him a long life !!

Also regarding the AC and the crazy Egyptians who will destroy the high dam generators , people are keen more to close the ACs even in the rooms they sit in because of electricity bills !!

Up till now large parts of the country suffer from frequent blackout , this is besides the water shortage that reached to 6th of October and New Cairo for since Friday , these are the outskirts of Cairo , I am not speaking about the villages in other governorates that have not got any water access for two weeks and more.

It is not about Ramadan or summer but our basic rights to live as Egyptian citizens who pay their taxes and bills !!! It is about the failing infrastructure of this country , the infrastructure which is from the so-called main achievements of President Mubarak in the past 28 years !! There is nothing wrong in the people's consumption considering the increasing population it is about the old generators that in desperate need to be upgraded.

Strangely the media did not highlight the rest of the dialogue between Yunis and his president which was far more interesting as it was about the debate about El Dabaa nuclear reactor's location; the businessmen lobby led by Gamal Mubarak's father in law does not want a nuclear reactor near their resorts, in fact they want its land to build resorts where as Yunis is insisting on that location as it was chosen since the 1960s for nuclear reactors.

MHM : Is it safe Yunis !!??

HY : Yes your Excellency , if you go online ,you will France has resorts besides nuclear reactors , in fact they consider them "Nuclear reactors" touristic attractions !!!!!!

MHM : This is what I need to know

And that's it !!

The president did not know all that time that the nuclear reactor is safe at this particular area !! It could not be because he issued presidential decree before to allocate this land to the nuclear reactor , so I missing something here !!

Mubarak on that day made a historical announcement : The Nile river will not leave Egypt !! I know some people will not get what he really meant , he meant that Egypt will not export the Nile river water to Israel denying the rumors that say so. Despite some may not believe him for good reasons related to his long discreditably "he said that he would stay two terms only", I believe him there are some red lines he knows he can't cross so easily with our people especially now.

I wonder now when Mubarak summons the minister of water sources to ask him about the water shortage currently in the country.

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